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The web standard
for public institutions.

Websites for towns, counties, districts and public universities, built and run by LFW.

  • You own the site, the content and the logins
  • A written price before the work starts
  • We build and run it
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Running a public website, two ways.

Running a public website today

With LFW

  • You own the code and the domain. The code in your own repository, the domain registered to you, your content exportable any day.
  • Fixed prices. A set scope and a set price. No automatic renewal, no yearly increase, cancel with 30 days’ notice.
  • Daily monitoring. Uptime checked every minute and broken links found every day, with updates and off-site backups.
  • Documents that pass. PDFs checked as they are uploaded, and the ones residents use fixed or rebuilt as accessible pages.

You own the website. We make sure it works.

What’s included.

Build, run, learn and own. Take one, or all four.

  • Build

    A new site started from the example for your kind of institution, at a fixed price.

    See the packages

  • Run

    Maintenance: updates and security patches, off-site backups and daily monitoring.

    See maintenance

  • Learn

    LFW Academy: short courses for the staff and volunteers who run the site.

    See LFW Academy

  • Own

    Our plugins are open source, your site’s code lives in your own repository, and your content exports any day.

    See the open source plugins

How can we help?

Three ways to start. Each one is free to try.

  • A sample LFW website audit report for the Town of Brissel Hollow, a fictional town: scores of 78 for performance, 98 for accessibility, 92 for SEO and 100 for best practices, then the first finding, a homepage image larger than it needs to be.
    Sample report for a fictional town.

    Check your current site

    A free audit of accessibility, speed, HTTPS and email settings. Enter your address and get a report in a few minutes.

    Run the free audit
  • Step 1 of the LFW site builder: a row of institution types to choose from, such as city, county, water utility, fire and EMS, courts, library and public museum, then cards with the homepage of each kind’s fictional example site.
    Step 1 of the site builder.

    See your new site

    From $250 a month. No setup fee. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.

    Choose your kind of institution, from city or county to library, fire district or court. Add your name and colors, and a working example site opens in your browser.

    Make one for your institution
  • The Overview of a free LFW account for a fictional town, with demo data: a Courses panel with progress bars for one completed course and two in progress, a Your site panel with accessibility, performance and SEO scores and open findings by kind, a Requests panel with three open questions and their status, and a Team panel showing three people and 2 of 3 invites used.
    The free LFW account for a fictional town, with demo data.

    Train the people who run it

    A free LFW account gives your staff and volunteers the courses, monitoring for your site and a direct line to us. It takes only an email.

    Sign up free

What the contract says, side by side.

The platform terms are from website contracts in public council packets. Ours are published.

A typical platform contract

  • 5% a year A Michigan township’s 2025 CivicPlus subscription for its online code of ordinances renews itself every year and raises the price 5% each time. Source: Hamburg Township Board of Trustees packet, February 18, 2025, item 12
  • 5 years A New York city’s 2025 website agreement runs five years. Canceling early still owes all five years. Source: City of Oneida, Revize sales agreement dated February 12, 2025
  • 60 days After year five the same agreement renews itself every year unless the city gives 60 days’ notice by email and letter. Source: City of Oneida, Revize sales agreement dated February 12, 2025

What each contract says about leaving:

LFW

  • $9,500 fixed price Rebuild for a town or district. Your pages and documents moved, launched in your name.
  • $14,500 fixed price Rebuild for a city or county. Up to 500 pages and 300 PDFs, with editor training.
  • $250 a month Maintenance. $3,000 a year, billed monthly or yearly.

No automatic renewal. No yearly price increase. Cancel with 30 days’ notice, and the site, the code and the domain stay yours.

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Leland Fiegel

Who we are

“There is no lift too heavy.”

Leland Fiegel Founder & Technical Lead. Building and supporting websites since 2007.

  • 2017Arlington County GovernmentWordPress administrator40+public-facing websitesSite operations, updates and security patches.
  • 2021 to 2023Liquid WebSenior WordPress developer4WordPress brandsMarketing and ecommerce sites for LearnDash, GiveWP, The Events Calendar and SolidWP.
  • 2023 to 2026Stand TogetherSenior web developer100+sites in the team’s portfolioCustom functionality, bug triage and publishing support.

Leland’s prior work.

About LFW

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Guides for the people who run public websites.

Short, practical and free. Written from the audits we run.

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